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The Scottsboro Trial was one of the most important cases of the Civil Rights Movement. The trial lasted seven years in the 1930's. It all started because white and black boys where on a train and got into a fight. The white boys accused the black teenagers of raping two white women in the group. The case went to trial and eight of the nine boys were sentenced to death. The nine "Scottsboro Boys" were Andy Wright, Willie Roberson, Charles Weems, Ozie Powell, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, Roy Wright, Clarence Norris, and Haywood Patterson.
 * "__Scottsboro Boys__"**

The court decided to overturn the decision in 1932 because they said the blacks were not given good lawyers. This case was then called Powell vs. Alabama. The Alabama Government did not want to drop this case and kept fighting back so the blacks would stay on trial. One of the nine boys was tried again. His name was Haywood P. Patterson. The jury convicted him, but the judge disagreed and set a date for a new trial. Patterson and Clarence Norris were convicted of rape in December 1933. This cycle of convictions kept reappearing, yet Alabama officials would not drop the charges. __**Scottsboro Boys after Trial**__

Finally, by 1950 the four convicted blacks were paroled while the fifth escaped and fled to Michigan. Many people thought the Scottsboro Boys were treated unfairly in the trials because of the color of their skin. This case received national attention and to this day people still disagree on how Alabama handled the cases.

//Kaitlin M.//




 * The Scottsboro Trial contains two women that were supposed to be raped and there names are Rudy Bates and Victoria Price. Rudy Bates was born in Borne Terre, Montana and lived in Lorain for ten yrs. She had worked in a penny factory. She was a member of many clubs such as Pythian sisters. She had a husband Harold, two sisters Ceil and Arnez, daughter Marion, and two sons Edgar and Harry. She also had 20 grand children and 10 great grand children.**

//Jessica C.//